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From: DAVE
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 21:46

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On Mon, 11 Jun 2001 05:21:19 +1000, "Barry Ward" <baz@powerup.com.au>
wrote:

>A friend of mine has recently bought his first computer -- a Celeron 667 on
>a Micro ATX board with integrated video and sound and only 64 meg RAM. It
>appears to have an ATA66 Hdd (UDMA Mode 4)  and runs Windows ME.
>
>It is soooo slow!!!! Its slower (especially loading) than my old P233 with
>64 meg RAM running Windows 95
>
>I figure the main problem is that 64 meg RAM (- 8 meg for the onboard
>video ) plus running Windows ME is the killer!!  I am going to get him
>another 128 Meg RAM -- but cannot do anything about the sound, video or Hdd
>(I think).
<snip>

Definitely boost the RAM.  Also check the programs that are running
upon bootup.  One of them may be bogging the systems or you could just
have too many things running.

Dave

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